New version of Quake (v2.40) available

I just uploaded a new version of Quake to OS4Depot. Since I didn't realise that there was a newer 2.30 version on AmiNet than the 2.20 version I fixed last time (which I released as version 2.21), I re-applied my changes to the 2.30 version, plus made a couple of other changes and fixes which will hopefully resolve the problems some have reported.

The MUI-GUI is of course included in 2.40 and it should work now in higher resolutions too, like 1680x1050 (although framerate will likely be quite low in such a resolution), on a Pegasos2/G4 it works at reasonable speeds (25+fps) at resolutions of up to 1024x768. On a Sam you get around 25fps in 800x600 resolution.

@COBRA

I'm having a good day today.
Nightlong works on me Sam and Quake was thrown in as a free extra.

Just tested the pak files from it with your program and everything works great.

Cheers Cobra.

@COBRA

Tried and it works fine here on my sam

Just a question, i don't understand if it is better to use or not the option near the " triple buffer " ( sorry i don't remember the exact name ) " OS.. "

I used it with 64 mega of ram allocation

Thanks

@nubechecorre

Triplebuffer is better for playing because it synchronises the video updates with the monitor's refresh. The only reason you may want to disable it is if you do benchmarking.

@COBRA

OK, but what does it do the option called " OS.. " ?

@nubechecorre

You mean "Use OS for screen update"? That does exactly what it says, it uses the OS routines for updating the display (e.g. WritePixelArray8...). It's of course slower than Quake's own routines.

@COBRA

Yes !, thanks for the explanation

@COBRA

Thanks for another update it plays very nicely in my sam440.b

I always get problems with rez higher than 1024x768 on my SAM ...
More to this, it's not impossible to change display resolution during game with menus ...

@COBRA

At work at the moment, but this is great news. Looks like most are more than happy. Well done Cobra.

@freddix

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What problem? I can run a 1680x1050 resolution fine here on a Peg2, apart from the slowness I see no problems. To change the video mode ingame you have to go in the menu to Options -> Video Options and select a resolution, then a screenmode requester will pop up.

@COBRA

Is this for quake 3?

Or the original Quake 1 paks?

Can I use this same 2.40 version for all the Quakes 1, 2, and 3?

THank you.

And sorry for not knowing whats going on here.

@COBRA

Just tried the Quake exe and i get a very nice juddering game.Any settings likely to cause this?
Juddering means the screen is shaking not acting as a slideshow.
I`ve tried 800x600 and 1024x768 so far.
This is on my A1 G4 /1ghz radeon 9250 256mb


Update-The information bar is still,its the rest of the screen which shakes.
Also i`m still using OS 4.0







Keep up the good work.

@Gebrochen

Quake 1, 2 and 3 are completely different games, using differeng game engines. As the readme says, this is a port of Quake 1.

@Cap

I don't get any shaking here, hower I did experience some strange flashes when using the -forcewpa8 option in combination with triplebuffering, so make sure you don't use the -forcewpa8 (in GUI "use OS screen update") with triplebuffering enabled.

@Cap

This also happens here but only at 1024x768 not at 800x600 i have a sam and amiga os 4.1

@COBRA

Do you have a direct link.
I have tried for two days, and IBrowse will not download it.
It just sit's there in the download manager window, with a red box besides it, and doesn't download.

@Swoop

my apologies, I thought you would be using OWB to download, I mean, did you not tell me in another thread that it works for you?

Cheers.

@Swoop

Direct link: http://os4depot.net/share/game/fps/quake.lha

@COBRA
I encounter the same problem than CAP.